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 * Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Dremio Corporation
 *
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package com.dremio.exec.planner.serialization;

import org.apache.calcite.rel.RelNode;

/**
 * An interface used to serialize {@link RelNode logical plan}.
 */
public interface LogicalPlanSerializer {

  /**
   * Serialize this relnode tree to a sequence of bytes.
   * @param plan The tree to serialize
   * @return The serialized bytes.
   */
  byte[] serializeToBytes(RelNode plan);

  /**
   * Generate a JSON representation of this RelNode tree as a JSON structure.
   * @param plan
   * @return
   */
  String serializeToJson(RelNode plan);


}
